KPMG Earns Spot on Fortune Best Workplaces List for 19th Straight Year

For the 19th consecutive year, KPMG secured a spot on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. What distinguishes this year's recognition from the previous 18 is how U.S. Chair and CEO Tim Walsh chose to explain it.

"Our performance as a firm is driven by the agility and bold thinking of our people, combined with our AI-powered platforms and solutions, that are delivering positive outcomes for our clients, business and communities," Walsh said in the April 1 announcement. That framing, coupling a workplace honor directly to AI adoption, is the more consequential signal for consultants, auditors and advisory professionals inside the firm.

KPMG has spent several years building out platforms like KPMG Clara and a range of agentic AI initiatives across audit and advisory services. The firm's public linkage of those tools to workplace recognition marks a meaningful shift in how leadership defines high performance: being a great place to work now explicitly means being a firm where people use AI effectively. Partners and people managers are likely to draw on the announcement to accelerate training pushes, justify updated workflow standards and reinforce CPE requirements tied to platform adoption.

For professionals monitoring their own trajectory, particularly at the senior associate and assistant manager levels where partner-track decisions begin to take shape, the announcement carries two simultaneous readings. The first is straightforwardly positive: KPMG is continuing to invest in people programs and workplace design even as cost pressures and workforce-sizing conversations run across the Big Four. The second is more cautious: technology-driven productivity tends to change how staffing and utilization decisions get made, and publicly tying AI capability to a workplace quality metric normalizes those expectations at the firm level.

The practical implication for day-to-day work is direct. Professionals who engage proactively with KPMG's AI governance frameworks, stay current on platform training requirements, and treat AI fluency as a performance criterion rather than a future option will carry a stronger hand in review cycles. Expect internal communications in the coming weeks to package that message around training resources, AI literacy programming and updated workflow briefings, with the Fortune recognition cited as the rationale.

Nineteen consecutive years on the same list is a durable employer-brand asset, and KPMG's leadership will use it as one throughout promotion season and campus recruiting. They have now also made clear that the foundation of that streak, going forward, is built as much on the firm's technology bets as on its people investments.